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Kirk, H.
Dunham, M. M.

Francesco, J. Di

Johnstone, D.
Offner, S. S. R.
Sadavoy, S. I.

Tobin, John

Arce, Hector

Bourke, T. L.
Mairs, S.
Myers, P. C.

Pineda, J. E.

Schnee, S.
Shirley, Y. L.
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Univ Arizona, Steward ObservIssue Date
2017-03-31
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ALMA Observations of Starless Core Substructure in Ophiuchus 2017, 838 (2):114 The Astrophysical JournalJournal
The Astrophysical JournalRights
© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.Collection Information
This item from the UA Faculty Publications collection is made available by the University of Arizona with support from the University of Arizona Libraries. If you have questions, please contact us at repository@u.library.arizona.edu.Abstract
Compact substructure is expected to arise in a starless core as mass becomes concentrated in the central region likely to form a protostar. Additionally, multiple peaks may form if fragmentation occurs. We present Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) Cycle 2 observations of 60 starless and protostellar cores in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud. We detect eight compact substructures which are >15 '' from the nearest Spitzer young stellar object. Only one of these has strong evidence for being truly starless after considering ancillary data, e.g., from Herschel and X-ray telescopes. An additional extended emission structure has tentative evidence for starlessness. The number of our detections is consistent with estimates from a combination of synthetic observations of numerical simulations and analytical arguments. This result suggests that a similar ALMA study in the Chamaeleon. I cloud, which detected no compact substructure in starless cores, may be due to the peculiar evolutionary state of cores in that cloud.ISSN
1538-4357Version
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Canada Foundation for InnovationAdditional Links
http://stacks.iop.org/0004-637X/838/i=2/a=114?key=crossref.627d77d65fd59c41e3c554d948120b5bae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3847/1538-4357/aa63f8